Supporting or connecting means.



No. 696,528. Patented Apr. I, H902.

DE VEB H. WARNER.

(Application filed Oct. 28, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A

SUPPORTING OR CONNECTING MEANS.

$PEGIFIOA'LION forming part of Letters Patent No. 696,528, dated April 1, 1902. Application filed October 23, 1901. Serial No. 79,646. (No model-2 T0 ELZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DE VER H. VVARNER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bridgeport, Fairfield county, Connection t, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supporting or Connecting Means, of which the following is tion.

My invention relates to improvements in supporting or connecting means, and is de signed to provide a means of support or connection which will be simple, secure, and beyond the possibility of accidental disengagement, while at the same time it maybe read ily disconnected, if desired.

In the following I have described, with reference to the accompanying drawings,a structure embodying my invention, the features thereof being more particularly pointed out hereinafter in the claims.

The drawings illustrate my invention in connection with hose-supporting means adapted to be suspended from the eye of a corsetclasp, and the description refers particularly to this adaptation of my invention, although it is obvious that it may be readily adapted to other uses wherein such means of support or connection are desired.

Figure 1 shows my device in connection with hose-supporting means suspended from the eye of a corset-clasp, the locking means being disengaged. Fig.2 is a rear view of the same detached from the corsetclasp. Fig. 3 is a sectional View of Fig. 1 along the line A B with the locking means engaged. Fig. 4 is a perspective, on an enlarged scale, of the hook portion of my device; and Fig. 5 is a sectional View of the same along the line C D of Fig. 4, showing also in section the looking device in connection therewith. p

a represents the bottom portion of a corset, provided with the usual corset-clasp having an eyepiece b.

0 represents a hook adapted in this instance to be engaged with the eye I), said hook havinga shank provided with a stud d. The stud is so mounted on the shank that in connection with means hereinafter described it serves to close the month of the hook. A slot 6 in a specificaa tape f, which may act as the connecting means between the garment and the hook.

A pad or piece g, preferably composed of several similarly-shaped pieces of flexible material stitched together at the edges, as shown, is secured to the tape by means of lines of transverse stitches h h, the doubled portion of the tape preferably projecting through a slit in said pad at a point nearthe top above the stitches. The flap of the pad above the stitches is provided with a socket 6, adapted to snap over upon the stud (Z and in cooperation therewith close the mouth of the hook, the flap affording a convenient flexible means of support for the socket, the stitches acting as a hinge. It is obvious that the hook,with its shank, is hinged on the tape in such manner that it may readily be turned in position for engagement with the eye of the corsetclasp and that when the socket 2' is in position on the stud the hook cannot be disengaged from its support.

A supporting or connecting device such as I have described is useful not only in connection with hose-supporters, but in any connection in which such means of suspension or of connecting parts may be desired, such as connecting the tab ends of suspenders with the web, the fastening of carriage-curtains, and the like.

I do not desire to restrict myself to the details shown nor to the use illustrated; but

What I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States, is

1'. In supporting or connecting means, the combination of a hook, a stud adjacent thereto and a socket adapted to cooperate with said stud and close the mouth of the hook.

2. In supporting or connecting means, the combination of a hook bearing a stud on its shank, with a socket adapted to snap over saidstud and close the month of the hook.

3. In supporting or connecting means, the combination of a hook bearing a stud on its shank, With a flexibly-mounted socket adapted to snap over said stud and close the mouth of the hook.

4:. In supporting or connecting means, the

. the shank of the hook is adapted to receive 50 combination of a hook bearing a stud on its over said stud and close the mouth of the shank, with means adapted to be connected hook.

with said hook and provided with a socket In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed adapted to snap over said stud and close the my name in the presence of two subscribing 5 month of the hook. Witnesses.

5. In supporting or connecting means, the h 7 combination of a hook bearing a stud on its VER WARNER shank, with means adapted to be connected Witnesses: with said hook, said means having a hinged F. S. ANDREWS,

IO flap provided with a socket adapted to snap I RUSSELL TOMLINSON. 

